Now multiply that by the 50 notifications you get a day. You aren't working 8 hours. You are working 8 hours of recovery time.
Every morning, we reach for our phones before our feet touch the floor. We scroll through emails while brushing our teeth. We listen to podcasts at 2x speed while driving. We sit in Zoom meetings while secretly Slack-ing a coworker about lunch. We have confused busy-ness with business , and we are burning out because of it. Now multiply that by the 50 notifications you get a day
We aren't superheroes. We are addicts—addicted to the feeling of switching. Let’s get specific. Imagine you are a software developer writing a complex piece of code. You are in "the zone." Suddenly, a Slack notification pops up. It’s a quick question about a meeting time. Every morning, we reach for our phones before
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Do one thing. Do it well. Then move on.
You go back to your code.